Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better... — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
